Reeferman
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Not an electrician, but years ago I worked for a high school district as a Network/PC guy. We set up a new school, new servers, switches, PCs etc.
One week before the school was set to open the transformer in the parking lot took a hit from lightning. Killed all kinds of connected equipment, (some insides blown to Sh!p) the small UPSes that protect from
minor surges were not up to the task and got fried as well. Everything was grounded, but a lightning strike is a lot of juice, high voltage, high amperage where it doesn't belong=bad news
Major pain to say the least.
If you hook the press up to the ground I would suggest not reloading during thunderstorms!
Used dryer sheets work well for me. I save the ones that come out of the dryer to wipe stuff down with.
If you dry tumble cut up pieces of them work well to help clean your media, toss in when cleaning cases.
I’ve never been in the grounding the press camp as well. I do the same as you by using the used drier sheets. I also put several inside the powder measures when empty. Growing up on the prairies we had major thunder and lighting storms and every building had rods on them. Getting caught in one out in the field when the tallest thing out there for many miles was whatever tractor or combine you were on is not something I would want to go through again.